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Eminem Boxes Clever For New Movie Role?

added 12 July 2004 at 17.30

Reports are circulating that Eminem will be following up his movie acting debut in ‘8 Mile’ with a role playing the part of boxing sensation Dmitry Salita – allegedly even going so far as to employ Lennox Lewis’ trainer to prepare his for the role.

After the huge international success of ‘8 Mile’ in 2002 (in which the Detroit rapper who clawed his way to the very top of the music scene played a Detroit rapper who clawed his way to the very top of the music scene) it’s being rumoured that Eminem will be playing the role of undefeated 22-year-old Ukranian-born Jewish boxing phenomenon Dmitry Salita in a new biopic.

Junior welterweight Dmitry ‘Star of David’ Salita fighter was born in Odessa, Ukraine, but now lives in Brooklyn. He keeps kosher, will not fight on the Sabbath, studies with a rabbi and is tipped be the next world champion with an astonishing unbeaten run of 17 fights (11 of which were knock outs).

Eminem has reportedly hired Emanuel Steward, Lennox Lewis’s trainer to help him prepare for the role, training in a special gym installed in his Detroit mansion.

"I put him through his paces and I was amazed that he was as good as he was. Since then, he's trained regularly and I've put him in the ring with some top-notch sparring partners."
Steward is quoted as saying.

“He's improved enormously. He's aggressive, a real slugger. He moves a lot like Muhammad Ali."

It’s rumoured that the movie, which may be called ‘Golden Boy’ will be made by legendary ‘Top Gun’, ‘Con Air’, ‘Flashdance’ and ‘Armageddon’ producer Jerry Bruckheimer and will focus on the relationship between the young fighter and his trainer Jimmy O’ Pharrow and will be scripted by ‘Ali’ and ‘True Color’s writer Greg Howard.

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